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by: Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Nancy Eckholm Burkert
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 398.220943
EAN: 9780374468682
ISBN: 0374468680
Label: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 32
Publication Date: November 01, 1987
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Sales Rank: 569852
Studio: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
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Editorial Review:
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'Mirror, mirror on the wall, Who is the fairest of us all?' repeatedly asks the Queen, Snow White's stepmother. She always gets the answer she wants, until Snow White turns seven, and the mirror must truthfully answer, 'Snow White.' At the news, the Queen turns yellow and green with envy and commands the huntsman to kill Snow White and bring her 'lung and liver as a token.' Thus begins another enchanting fairy tale from the Brothers Grimm!
Kirkus Reviews called this collaboration between Randall and Nancy Eckholm Burkert 'a sort of legend even before its time of publication.' Jarrell also wrote The Bat-Poet and The Animal Family, a Newbery Honor Book. Jarrell retained the Grimm (and grim) ending to the tale, as the stepmother is forced to dance to her death. Burkert's illustrations are magical, light-filled creations that more than earn the book its Caldecott Honor Book status. This delightful book's extra-large format showcases the fabulously detailed illustrations, alternating two facing pages of art with two pages of straight text. This is an unforgettable interpretation of a well-loved story. (Ages 6 to 9)
Product Description:
Retells the tale of the beautiful princess whose lips were red as blood, skin was white as snow, and hair was as black as ebony.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - A Treasure
Jarrell has translated this from the German version as precisely as he could, and it's a pleasure to read a Brothers Grimm story as it was originally written. I love the book, however, for the exquisite illustrations by Nancy Ekholm Burkert. They are amazingly beautiful--so precise, sensitive, and well-executed, and yet boldly designed. She places us immediately within the scene and then our eyes move from detail to detail, always finding something new.
This is not a book to rush through. ... Read More
Rating: - ausm
this was not my favorite book but you can tell that it had to tack along time for them to come up with the pictures in this book. i thought that thee book was pretty easy to read i loved how she got back awak. my favorite part in this story was when she got awak at the end . I think that this was a good book for a fairy tale but you could tell that she was they were in a fake place. so i still rated it a five becuse it was a good book.
Rating: - The Original Snow White Restored
Quick someone, grab some rope. Disney is down and we need to protect ourselves while we can. ;) It is so wonderful to see this beautiful tale restored to its original depth and content. The translation is marvelous, from showing the queen being overpowered by jealousy, to the interest and friendliness of the woodland creatures. And the illustrations!! No strange little cartoon creatures here, just reagular dwarf men, neither spooky nor kooky. The illustrations are so beautiful, one can't help becoming ... Read More
Rating:  - The scariest Snow-White you've ever read---NOT a Disney version!
If you like your fairy tales totally authentic and not Disney-sized, you will love this one! It's Snow-White with all the scary parts left in--the wicked stepmother asking for the liver and lungs of the dead Snow-White, the prince falling in love with a dead body---it would have been a little much for my sons had they not been 8 and 11 at first reading! As it was, they liked this a lot---perhaps because I don't let them watch horror movies and this is as close as they get!
But besides that, this is ... Read More
Rating: - Beautiful
This book is very nice -- large format and beautiful illustrations -- and a great value.
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